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This website has 346 writing prompts. Just roll over the number and the prompt will pop up.

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ProCon.orgThis website (ProCon.org) offers a variety of resources on current hot topics. It presents background information and the pro & cons of various arguements. They claim to promote critical thinking and informed citizenship by presenting researched material in a non biased way.

About.com - Writing topics - argumen and persuasionThis website has 40 persuasive writing prompts. It also has links to several classic persuasive essays to use as mentor texts for the students.
This website has a huge variety of resources from interactive prompts where you can use a machine thats turns out random prompts through to graphic organizers.

This page has lots of narrative prompts.

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Scribd - 501 writing prompts This is an ebook with 501 writing prompt ideas. It also has rubrics, and model essays. It has prompts for persuasive, expository, narrative, and responses to literature.

EReading Worksheets - Persuasive promptsThis pdf file has a list of 101 persuasive writing prompts.